CEOs need to accelerate their action plans to safeguard the production of commodities critical to the global population and economy as heat stress and drought risk rise around the world, according to PwC's report, Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity, published. The report, which analysed nine …
DROUGHT conditions triggered a pest attack in 12 paddy growing districts of Orissa. The swarming caterpillars (Spodoptera mauritia) ruined crops on 89,000 hectares (ha) of the four million ha under paddy cultivation in the state. Sambalpur district was the worst affected; paddy crops on nearly 33,000 ha were destroyed by …
RAJKUMARI KUNWAR, 70 years old, lay inert on her cot when a few people entered her small hut in Rajharakharmi village on July 23. They could count the ribs on her frail body. The pots and pans lying around were covered in dust. An aluminium glass lay toppled by her …
THIS is the variety of rice without which biryani, the royal gastronomical delight, would not feature so prominantly in the history pages on Mughal influence in India. Aromatic, long-grained, nonsticky are the words that describe it. It is the Basmati. India grows 1.6 million tonnes annually. Two-thirds is exported every …
Large-scale farming of flash-flood tolerant varieties of Aman crop can produce an additional six million tonnes paddy annually to make the country completely self-reliant in food production and a rice exporting nation. The concerned authorities are in the final stage to officially release these varieties this year to enable the …
Large-scale farming of flash-flood tolerant varieties of Aman crop can produce an additional six million tonnes paddy annually to make the country completely self-reliant in food production and a rice exporting nation. The concerned authorities are in the final stage to officially release these varieties this year to enable the …
Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) is trying to popularise the cultivation of Parija rice as an additional crop in between Aman and Boro in greater Rangpur region. Parija is one of the disappeared Aus varieties of rice. Farmers in the region used to cultivate the early harvest variety during Aus …
Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Read this latest Down To Earth report on how our food preferences are making us vulnerable to drought. To read the full story click here: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20090915&filename;=news&sid;=39&sec;_id=9 See Also: Feature: Rain Shocked www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/277687 Report: Drought …
Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food preferences are making us vulnerable to drought Hari Achal Singh has been a farmer for as long as he can remember. And that
he newly innovated hybrid Boro paddy- BRRI Hybrid Dhan-3-with shorter lifetime and lower production cost is expected to release very soon. The authorities concerned is set give the final approval for releasing the variety for commercial production within next one or two months, director (administration) of the BRRI Dr A …
The residents of several areas in the Palagala Divisional Secretaries Division were facing hardship for want of irrigation facilities to cultivate their paddy fields and arable land. The farmers in Kalugala, Kosgahainna and Ussana villages are the worst affected. They pointed out that the Kalugala tank which was the only …
A fourth of all the water used in Asia can be saved using new methods of growing rice Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 8, 2009, 0:36 IST New methods can halve the use of water in growing rice - the water saved can equal a fourth of all Asia
Narayan Lakshman CHENNAI: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has helped farmers in Tiruchi district to cope with an unreliable monsoon and shortage of farm labour, according to the district administration. Speaking to The Hindu, District Collector T. Soundiah said the production cost of paddy under the new cultivation technique …
At a time when the cultivators of Assam are spending their days in hopelessness and agony because of the long spell of drought, a new method of cultivation named SRI has brought a ray of hope to them as by this method Ahu rice production can be doubled. This new …
The State could record the highest rice production in 2008-09 fiscal, for a period of 57 years since 1951. This has also helped it attain a surplus of 1.78 lakh MT in matters of rice, against a requirement of 38.92 lakh MT, in that fiscal. The field data of this …
Paddy farmers in the Thambiluvil Agrarian Services Centre have reported losses in their cultivations during the Yala season due to misuse of water in Sagamam tank, a major irrigation work which has a history of over a thousand years. Sagamam tank was part of the Gal Oya Scheme. It was …
BHUBANESWAR: Congress has demanded supply of rice at Re 1 a kilogram in backward districts of Orissa by the State Government as the Centre has increased subsidy from Rs 11 to Rs 13 a kg. Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee working president and former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das said that …
Plant growth promoters are naturally produced molecules that increase crop yield. Developing them for commercial use is difficult. The Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) received a US patent in May, this year, for developing a promoter, isolated from a medicinal plant. Anil Kumar Singh, Deputy Director of …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today assured the Prime Minister that the state would meet its grain production target for the national food pool. However, the state and its farmers paid a heavy price to maintain the crop due to unprecedented dry spell, he said. Badal said the immediate …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday and demanded a special package of Rs 2,000 crore in addition to a drought relief of Rs 100 per quintal for paddy and Rs 50 per quintal for maize over and above the MSP. Badal said …
